Why is a deserted island often being a land of fantasy?

 An island that is not inhabited by humans is called a desert island. Uninhabited islands are also called ‘deserted islands.’ There are many such islands around the world. Uninhabited, islands are often used in movies or stories about shipwrecked people.

There are many such desert islands. One among them is Kermadec Islands in the South Pacific. Another one is De Long Islands in the Arctic Ocean.

Tetepare is the largest uninhabited island in the South Pacific. The long rugged island is covered with pristine lowland rainforest, and fringed with coral reefs.

The first known novel to be set on a desert island was Philosophus Autodidactus written by Ibn Tufail.

William Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest, uses the idea of being stranded on a desert island as a pretext for the action of the play.